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Friday, July 27, 2007

WCB - Sharing Cat Art that we Heart

Ignore when spoken to.That's Sadie's favorite new proverb today. She's not ever coming back inside because she is afraid Mosaic Lady is on the verge of making her an indoor-only cat. And buying her a stroller (hot pink and chartreuse paisley). Sadie is reverting to her feral ways voluntarily.

We wanted to share something fun and colorful this weekend instead of droning on about our various health issues or recently-deceased fur fam members. (Thank us in fish flakes. We've never had those. Ever-deprived.) Last year Mosaic Lady found this wonderful artist, Mary Tagliarino of Wild Sunflower Studio, on eBay. She bought many of her cat art items from her Cafe Press store for holiday gifts. If you click right here, you can go to a page in her Cafe Press store that has her tiles on it. We like this page because at a glance you can seem many of her images. She paints gingers, tuxies, meezers, whities, blackies, tabbies...there is even a white bun! Mary paints city cats and country cats; winter and summer cats; domestic and foreign cats. Some even wear clothes and jewelry and tiaras, for those of you who are into that sort of stuff. (DON'T give ML any more ideas! "Indoor only" & paisley strollers are already freaking us out.)

This is our kind of folk art! Maybe some of you already know Mary and her store.We're showing you three of the tiles Mosaic Lady bought for herself. We especially love the Martini Meezer and the Ginger Wino! (Those are ML's titles, not Mary's.) We gave many of the other images to friends and family...cat lovers all. We got an apron, a couple jewelry boxes, ornaments and many tiles. Mosaic Lady's mom loved her four tiles so much that she had great-uncle Bob build a special frame in which to display them all. We like to use ours for keeping the wet from the wine bottle off the tables.

Mosaic Lady just got back in touch with Mary and is trying to talk her into doing a new series of original paintings called Cats & Wine. Wine & Cats? We don't want Mosaic Lady to sue us for blathering her ideas but can't you just see:Meezer Merlot, Tuxie Traminer, Calico Cabernet, Rex Riesling, Siamese Syrah, Sphynx Sylvaner, Persian Pinot, GINGER GRIGIO?

May your weekend be full of pretty colors and funny cats and good art!A great place to find funny good cats and artsy photos of pretty cats is at this weekend's Cat Blogging Round Up, hosted by talented Kate and her darling Puddy over at A Byootaful Life.Willie & Bianca

That art is lovely, but not as lovely as real cats. Victor is acting silly about this Sadie thing. If she's returning to her feral roots, she may be a bit much for him. Hmmm. I like the picture that forms in my mind.

Nice tile art! We think that William's mom (William of Mass Destruction in New Mexico) does some of her own tiles too, and they're beautiful.

We're blogging kitties, and we're indoor/outdoor and NO ONE is going to make us indoor only now.

Were you looking for a breeder of orientals? I think there must be one near us in Alexandria, Virginia (near DC) because that is where the beautiful Kaze came from. That's only 4-7 hours away depending on where you are in North Carolina. (Mom has a sister in Wake Forest outside of Raleigh so she's been that way a lot.)

Thank you! Thank you, all! And a special thank you to Laura for featuring our mama's artwork! You must realize that none of it would be possible without us, don't you? We are the indispensible inspiration here at Wild Sunflower Studio - in fact we reign supreme on our cat gym overlooking the easel and all the mess on the art table....

We are really in charge of quality control. Sometimes, at night, we sleep on Mama's desk after we inspect everything because we can't do it when she is awake. We were drawn to the paint water because we like to drink colored water even though we have fresh water by our food bowls, but now that Mama has caught on, she always covers it up.